On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 00:22 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 04:55 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> I am not sure Fedora should support toolchains endorsing proprietary
> OSes (Though MinGW is free, the OS underneath is not). I.e. from a
> Fedora focused POV all such a cross compiler does is "helping your
> enemy".
That's a bit silly.
Well, I don't think so.
We already have Wine in extras. You can compile and
test windows binaries without needing a proprietary OS.
This is the opposite
direction: _Running_ native Win-apps under Linux.
Mingw's purpose is to enable to compile Unix SW to run it under Win,
such that people can avoid using Unix/Linux and harvest Unix SW under
Win.
At least I am not interested in supporting this.
Its called interoperability.
I call it playing nice to M$.
At least I am not interested in supporting this.
The only reason to stifle interoperability
is to lock your customers in to an inferior product. (Well, that and
maybe legal issues such as patent bullshit...)
Yes ... that would be yet another
issue.
Ralf